week two

Lectures:

We learned the common tasks of PC such as word processing, creating/editing spreadsheets, creating presentation, internet browsing/surfing etc.Also we learned how to access these tasks.
PC is use to achieve tasks such as File Handing, Presentations etc and their applications.
All tasks do require knowledge and skills at a certain stage.

Tutorial.

We were taught how to excel and build a table with the labels and headings also we learned how to create charts using chart wizard.


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We did exercise that were designed to extend our knowledge on Microsoft word.
By opening a word document and copy then paste the text, then adjust the text to the word document by:
- adjusting the typeface
- adjust the margins & alignment
- adjust line spacing
- create headings using the document map features
Also copy and paste the table to contents then create dot leader.
Displaying & researching
Viewing & editing
Sorting
Searching
Setting the output style.



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Reading 1 Summary- ‘Using MS Word for APA tasks’

Using Microsoft word for APA Tasks.
Delete keys
Backspace & delete are the two deleting keys.
Backspace deletes letters spaced to the left and delete key, deletes them to the right of the cursor.

Adjust the typeface (fonts)
11-pt or 12-pt serif black typeface is the best for the text.

Setting typeface in ms word.
Click format on the toolbar, select font, and click format on your choice in the font or right click the mouse to get the font menu. But most screens have the font type and size on the tool bar.

Margin and Alignments.
Margins are 1 inch all around.
To change the margins
- Click, file, page setup.
- Click the margin tab, if not available, set the margin for a whole document.
- Select to return to editing screen.

Alignment.
- Text is always aligned at the left unless when it is a special design or when a sentence is aligned the right or at the centre.
- To align text at the left click the left align icon on the toolbar.
Line Spacing

- Don’t use single-space text
- Don’t use any other spacing
- Use only double-spaces.
- Don’t press the enter key twice to create double-space.


Setting double space in ms words

Method one

click the double space icon on the toolbar
Set the line spacing to double space.

Method two
click format
Click paragraph
Set the line spacing to double space.

Keep headings with text

- place cursor at beginning of heading
- click format, then paragraph
- click on the line and page breaks tab
- click keep with next
- click ok
Set dot leaders

- go to toolbar, click format & then tabs to open the tab formatting
- Highlight delete any existing tabs
- Type what you want to tab stop
- Align to left
- Set leader at 2 (for dots)
- Click both set & then ok.

Reading 2 Summary- ‘Graphic File Formats’

Bitmap (.bmp)
Definition: - BMP is “the standard windows bitmap image format for PC”
- To save an image in BMP, you need to prevent the effect of the amount of colour & file-size of the image by selecting a specific bit out of 24 bit.
- For 4-bit & 8-bit use (RLE) which is less loss and have no effect on image quality.

Compu serve (gif).
GIF is a squeezed format of maximum 256 colours that is designed to short time to transfer phone lines. GIF is use to “display graphics & images in HTML”.
Joint photographic Experts Group- or jpeg (jpg)
- JPEG is used to “display image on the internet”
- JPEG keep all “the colour information in an RHB image”
- When saving an image in JPEG reduce the size of the file.

The tagged- image file format (TIFF)
- TIFF is an exchange files between “applications and computer platforms” which is read by both Macintosh and windows computers.
- The TIFF support LZW by reducing a method of image which uses mathematical formula.
Photoshop Document;
-Photoshop has layered image formats, which support at least two or more layers of visual data.
-These layers have transparency space and allow another layer at the top.